Alastair Moock introduces students to the music that shaped and connected two of America’s most important movements for change, the Labor Rights and Civil Rights Movements. Through Alastair’s narrative storytelling and musical talents, and an engaging visual presentation, students journey from the Great Depression through the Jim Crow South (and North), and learn how organized resistance in the past still informs movements for change today.

Students will sing songs like “This Land is Your Land” (examining the song’s great virtues and also its problems), “The Union Maid,” “If You Miss Me from the Back of the Bus,” and “We Shall Overcome," meet changemakers like Martin Luther King, Pete Seeger, Fannie Lou Hamer, Harvey Milk, and Greta Thunberg, and walk away with a deeper understanding of our country and the ways in which our past affects our present.

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